Great work guys! I think you hit the nail on the head with the template style being the best approach for easily putting together emails with clean code. HTML email editors are in a terrible state and that is why I have created Sendicate (http://sendicate.net)
For more reasons why you should ditch the traditional WYSIWYG style approach have a look at:
For more reasons why you should ditch the traditional WYSIWYG style approach have a look at:
1. http://www.chadyj.com/post/21569743980/content-sections-as-p... 2. http://www.chadyj.com/post/21158280879/die-wysiwyg-die-lets-... 3. http://www.chadyj.com/post/20729167319/email-newsletters-are...